"There seems an anachronism in the history of this person. Ratcliffe [Jem], among other escapes from justice, was released by the Porteous [Jock] mob when under sentence of death; and he was again under the same predicament when the Highlanders made a similar jail delivery in 1715. He was too sincere a whig to embrace liberation at the hands of Jacobites and in reward was made one of the keepers of the Tollbooth."